The Flesh Made Word : Female Figures and Women's Bodies
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0195060814
ISBN-13
9780195060812
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 5th, 1990
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
252 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 14.70 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Gender studies: women
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Examining the works of such Victorian writers as the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, this study discusses codes and taboos about the female body and explores how female sexuality was represented in Victorian literary and non-literary genres, such as painting, etiquette books and pornography.
Examining the works of such Victorian writers as the Brontës, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, and Hardy, Michie discusses the codes and taboos which distance the reader from the female body, allowing `safe'' bodily parts - like hands - and `safe'' physical activities - like eating - to stand for other, unspeakable aspects of female physicality. She reveals how these codes function as safe textual spaces for the entrance of the seemingly excluded female body, and shows that in the stylized discourses of synecdoche, euphemism, physiognomy, and metaphor lie the possibilities of their own subversion.
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